On This Day Calendar
Bring a touch of historic trivia to each and every morning with this cool and colourful wall calendar. Each day is represented by a square – we know that’s nothing new but wait for this…each square is heat sensitive so when you touch it, the black cover completely disappears to reveal a fun fact about something historical that happened on that very day. Continue reading »
Glass Beach
Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town. Continue reading »
Thailand’s Traditional Khon Mask
A close up of a Khon mask July 8, 2011 in Angthong, Thailand. The paper mache Khon masks, are part of the ornate glittering costumes used in the stylized classical Thai dance form known as Khon. Prateep sells his handmade masks for $50-120 US, it can take around 10 days to make one. The Khon tradition was originally imported from India around the 10th century. The painted Khon masks are essential to conveying the characters and moods of a Khon performance. Often the masks are used as decorative objects displayed in many homes and in many Thai restaurants globally. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Cats of War
A Somali government soldiers mans a position inside Bakara market on August 8, 2011. Residents of Somalia’s war-torn capital fled fighting Monday after remnants of extremist Shebab rebel forces, who pulled out of Mogadishu at the weekend, battled with government troops overnight. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels – who had controlled around half of Mogadishu – abandoned their positions in a surprise withdrawal on Saturday. Fighting late on Sunday took place in several locations in the south and north of the city, as African Union-backed government troops set up bases in former Shebab strongholds. (MUSTAFA ABDI/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
47-foot M&M Piñata Lifted in NY
Workers prepared to move a lift Wednesday as they added finishing touches to a 47-foot M&M piñata in the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Ave. The piñata, supposedly the world’s largest, is for a celebration for the one-year anniversary of M&M Pretzel. (Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal)
Photo of the Day: Men Fish Near Black Sea Resort of Sochi
A woman sunbathes as men fish on a lake outside the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Aug. 7. (Mikhail Mordasov / AFP – Getty Images)
Two Men Try to Recover After Drinking Too Much in India
Two intoxicated men rest as it rains in Kolkata, India, Aug. 6. (Bikas Das / AP)
Solar Storm Threatens to Slam Into Earth, Spectacular Flares Detected by NASA
Solar blasts of energy from the sun began reaching the Earth on Friday and could disrupt some communications, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Storms are brewing some 93 million miles away and three solar flares erupted on the sun starting Tuesday, touching earth’s magnetic field on Friday in the form of fast-moving “solar wind” and is blowing by the Earth. (NASA / NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center / IBITimes) Continue reading »
Hitler, Crow and Little Girl: A True Bloody Story
Awesome crazy-ass animations, done by this guy. Continue reading »
French Vogue Has Caused Outrage by Printing Provocative Pictures of a 10 Year Old Model
The shots show Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau posing on leopard print cushions, sporting a full face of make-up and wearing skimpy, cut-away clothes. In other images the pre-teen pouts while applying lipstick and dons a metallic dress with the front cut to the waist. The pictures have reignited the debate about the sexualisation of young girls. The daughter of French international footballer Patrick Blondeau and TV presenter Veronika Loubry, Thylane has been modelling since she was five and is hotly tipped to be fashion’s next big thing.
What’s wrong with this crazy World? Continue reading »
Tasting The Rainbow: The Ants Whose Multi-coloured Abdomens Show Exactly What They’ve Been Eating
Ring of colour: An ant’s transparent abdomen shows the colour of the food they have eaten. (Mohamed Babu / Solent News & Photo Agency) Continue reading »
‘Slinky Springs to Fame’ Bridge Built in Oberhausen, Germany
The new “Slinky Springs to Fame” bridge is illuminated at night in the western German city of Oberhausen. The 350-meter-long bridge was designed by German artist T. Rehberger. (Roland Weihrauch/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
The Tattoo Jam Festival
The Tattoo Jam Festival in Doncaste is Britain’s biggest gathering of tattoo professionals and skin art devotees. The event hosts over 300 artists working in the exhibition hall of Doncaster Racecourse. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Continue reading »
How this First Lady Moves Markets
Michelle Obama creates an unprecedented amount of value for the companies that make and sell the clothes she wears.
What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?
Some of us might like to reinstate this food guide from World War II because butter has its own food group. (National Archives, Records of the Office of Government Reports)
Food. We love it, fear it, and obsess about it.
We demand that our Government ensure that it is safe, cheap, and abundant. In response, Government has been a factor in the production, regulation, research, innovation, and economics of our food supply. It has also attempted, with varying success, to change the eating habits of Americans.
From the farm to the dinner table, explore the records of the National Archives that trace the Government’s effect on what Americans eat. Continue reading »
ConQuest of Mythodea, the Largest Role Playing Event
The ConQuest event is the largest interactive festival of that kind. Year by year in summer, the Brokeloh Manor near Hannover. More than 7000 participants from Europe, the US and other places in the world meet up with over 1000 fully trained and supplied extras. The event staff, holding 250 persons, over 120 tons of props and equipment change the manor and more than 60 hectars of fields, forests and else into the fantastic and mystical world of “Mythodea”. (PETER STEFFEN/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Obama Cupcakes: Yes, We Eat!
Cupcakes bearing the likeness of U.S. President Barack Obama are displayed at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on Obama’s 50th birthday August 4, 2011 in Washington, DC. On Obama’s 50th birthday, the replica Oval Office at Madame Tussauds was decorated with party balloons, streamers and presents, while the figures the Obamas, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey were outfitted with party hats and noisemakers. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Photo of the Day: Entire Crew of Sinking Ship Rescued from Peril at Sea
In this photo provided by the Indian Ministry of Defense shows a Seaking helicopter from the Indian Navy hovering over of the sinking ship MV Rak Carrier off the coast of Mumbai on August 4, 2011. The Panama-flagged MV Rak Carrier, a 220-meter (722-feet) long vessel transporting 60,000 tonnes of coal from Indonesia to India, sank off the coast of Mumbai after its 30-strong crew were rescued when it began taking on water in stormy seas. The MV Rak Carrier went down about 22 nautical miles from India’s financial and entertainment capital, just hours after it made an emergency distress call. (MINISTRY OF DEFENCE/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Mayor Crushes Illegally Parked Mercedes with a Tank in Vilnius, Lithuania
Arturas Zuokas, the 43 year old mayor of Vilnius drives over a car parked illegally on a main street in Vilnius city center with a military vehicle, August 2, 2011. The mayor took the drastic action after becoming infuriated with motorists parking their luxury cars illegally around the city. (Vilnius City Municipality via AP) Click image to zoom.
Mood Meter Tracks Smiley Tweets and Frowny Tweets
A billboard for JELL-O stands at the corner of Grand Street and West Broadway on August 2 in New York City. The billboard acts as a mood-meter by analyzing Twitter and gauging the number of happy and sad emoticons used at any given moment, causing the billboard’s face to change between a smile and a frown. (Andrew Burton / Getty Images)
All Out Advertising
A man in his underwear and a tie holds a sign at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, as part of a drive by a men’s clothes store to collect used men’s clothes for at-risk people transitioning into the workforce, August 2, 2011. (AFP: Nicholas Kamm)
Placing Modern Figures in an Ancient Church
Sean Henry‘s sculpture Man with Cup (2008) is exhibited on the West Front of Salisbury Cathedral on August 2, 2011 in Salisbury, United Kingdom. The exhibition, ‘Conflux: A Union of the Sacred and the Anonymous’, features over 20 contemporary sculptures of dramatically different scales occupying vacant plinths and open spaces on both the inside and exterior of the iconic 13th century building. This exhibition brings to the Cathedral the biggest single group of polychrome sculpture since the Reformation and runs until the end of October. (Matt Cardy / Getty Images) Continue reading »
Children’s Section Entrance
This is the entrance to the children’s section of the library. The entrance is consists of popular books such as Robin Hood and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Photo credits: Victor Rocha.
